Who was the real power? The Captain? or Tenille?

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Jon B. - Jul 29, 2010 7:09:07 pm PDT #14558 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Yeah, those tablets are essential for any sort of serious Photoshopping.


Sophia Brooks - Jul 30, 2010 6:25:05 am PDT #14559 of 25501
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Thank you for the recs. Maybe I can buy one myself (the web designer does not have one, so I doubt they would give one to me)


flea - Jul 30, 2010 6:28:14 am PDT #14560 of 25501
information libertarian

flea's rule for work: NEVER buy stuff for yourself. I mean, seriously. If they do not want to shell out for it, YOU do not need to make up the difference yourself, unless you are making Big Bank (in which case they usually shell out for stuff anyway.)


§ ita § - Jul 30, 2010 6:45:27 am PDT #14561 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Isn't your husband buying his own computer?


Tom Scola - Jul 30, 2010 7:11:06 am PDT #14562 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

From one of our servers at work:

# uptime
12:10pm up 2000 day(s), 23:59, 1 user, load average: 0.05, 0.05, 0.05


flea - Jul 30, 2010 7:26:14 am PDT #14563 of 25501
information libertarian

ita, yes he is and I strenuously argued against that.


Typo Boy - Jul 30, 2010 8:02:58 am PDT #14564 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

12:10pm up 2000 day(s)

You have me curious

So there has been no occasion to reboot for 5.5 years? OS? Hardware? What kind of server? (i.e. shared hard disk, database? )


Tom Scola - Jul 30, 2010 8:11:29 am PDT #14565 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

It's a Sun V100 running Solaris 8 acting as a secondary NIS server. Due to an oversight it was left out of our inventory list, and was not part of our regular OS patch cycle.


tommyrot - Jul 30, 2010 9:30:33 am PDT #14566 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Introducing the iCub: [link]

An airplane based on the classic Piper Cub, with an iPod used for display of instruments, navigation, etc.


Maria - Jul 31, 2010 2:27:13 pm PDT #14567 of 25501
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift

I need a portable external HD for my laptop. I'm out of space. I picked up a WD My Passport Essential SE 1 TB at Costco this afternoon, but now I'm second-guessing the purchase. The Seagate Free Agent Go 1TB was also available, for the exact same price. ($109.99, if anyone wants to know.)

I chose the WD because it was significantly lighter, but after reading some reviews, I'm concerned about performance. Does anyone have experience with either (or both)? Should I go back to Costco tomorrow and get the Seagate instead?